Kobe Bryant’s Last Great Interview

basketball team? Union GM president, you know, coaches, all this, assistant, good coach, what do you need right now? When you put it, for example, right now, build an animation house, so you have to start with the head of the snake. Yes, look at the person who understands best. type of animation that you want to create and they have to be obsessive, they have to have a knowledge base, the historical knowledge base, because I love people who understand the history of their industry, finish a pinch of everything and then you bring that person to the photo and then you let them do what you brought them to do, so you leave them alone, kind of like Phil left them alone.

I'm not going to hire you to tell you how to do your job, I understood that, so recruiting well, obviously. You were known around the league as a

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recruiter, so what is your recruiting approach? If you sit with me, I'm someone you really want, you really want me on the team, what's your approach to recruit me you want first place come play with me you want second place go somewhere else it's a lot of fun here final thoughts man what Let's see with Kobe the next 20 years, what other projects do you have in mind that you are working on?

Right now, the biggest challenge for us is looking at the entertainment industry and how to diversify it, particularly in animation, but also in writing, and wai'a YA novels, middle grade novels, how to create more diverse characters, how can we have better representation, how do we create better opportunities not only in terms of ethnicity but also gender diversity? I have four girls, so my mission is to make sure women have opportunities that they haven't been given. That is what I did. I'm a father of four girls, so My next obsession is how we lead that charge from the front.

How do we take on an animation industry that lacks diversity? Substantially lacks diversity. How do we take some of those old animation techniques and teach a whole new generation of animators? and create films to inspire the world and we are pursuing it. I think everyone knows very clearly that Kobe will get whatever Kobe wants. Bro, I appreciate you coming out and this has actually been

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, maybe some noise. Kobe Bryant, thank you. a gift for you my doll I gave her the gift thank God let me give you this gift okay let me give you this gift you have it so the first one I'm going to give you is this this is something that you represent and we have to go get your size and it just says after the game you're now an entrepreneur so we're going to give you t-shirts that's right that's your word and the next word you said script so we went and got a Star Wars script for the Hawaiian signed by JJ Abrams man space oh that's awesome hope to roll wait thank you hope you enjoyed it thank you thank you thank you grateful come on then thank you no thank you for coming thank you nabob thank you all make those Kobe Bryant okay